However the car will not make it to the asteroid belt, instead the rocket carrying the car overshot the trajectory and put the Tesla on an orbit that extends beyond the Red Planet’s path.

Mr Musk said the final engine burn worked a little too well and put the car on its final orbit.

A revised orbit was sent to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Wednesday which shows the car will travel farther out than the orbit of Mars.

Within the next decade, the Roadster will make its closest approach to Mars in October 2020, coming within 4.3 million miles, according to Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at Harvard and spaceflight expert.